The Washington critic., 1887-09-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

to the author of "1lome, Sweet Home"
in Washington some time since.
President Cleveland and Colonel La.
mont drove up to the shaft. The
Chicagoan was partially hidden from
view, and there was none other than
himself about the place save the dis.
tinguished pair mentioned. The
President said: "Dan, know there is
something biting me here" slapping
his right hand over his trowsers
pocket on the same side. The team
was turned In and the President and
his secretary jumped out. The former
hastily undid himself, assisted by Dan,
who examined the place and said at
looks like a bee sting" The Presi.
dent replied: And yet those news.
paper fellows say have the bee in my
bonnet" The Chicagoan, who was
still hid from view, booked the reply
as clever thing. The reason that
the Chicagoan was secreted during the
disarrangement of the Presidential
harness is explained by the fact that
che Is a woman. That Is also the
reason she listened.
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An ex.Member OF Congress, who had
barely sufficient money left to pay rail-
road fare home after the close of the
late Congress, narrating his experience
in living In furnished house, gives
Colonel Ayres of the Kansas City Times
the following account of how he had
made big mistake: II rented
sparsely furnished house at $1,000 per
year, from October /, 1885, to April l,
1887, nineteen months, at Ss3.33 per
month, total of 81, ,5s327. The house
unfurnished was not worth more than
$50 per month; in fact l could have
rented better one for $40 on Capitol
Hill, but that neighborhood was not
fashionable enough to suit my family.
But at $50 per month the nineteen
months rent would be $3.50, and, there.
fore, paid $633.27 for rent of the old,
rickety furniture and badly worn car.
pets. l was obliged to purchase table.
ware and linen, and likewise bought
several articles of furniture wherewith
to make the house decent Now,
would have bought more and better
furniture than was in that house for
less than the amount / paid for Its
nineteen months rent, and at the end
of my term could have sold 1t at auc.
tion for 10 per cent. less, so that
would have realized at least $500,
making the rent or use of the furniture
cost not over 800. This furniture
could have been purchased on the in
stallment plan, one.thrd down and
balance on monthly installments of not
Au 10
more than the value of the furniture
1t. My advice to Members of Congress
depending on their salaries and having
families with them is to rent q modest.
priced house and furnish it, for cash If
they have 1t, otherwise on the Install
ment plan"
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There Is great interest In the OPEN
ing of offers for sale of bonds, says
Austin, in the Cincinnati TimeS..Star.
The money markets are interested, and
this makes everybody else interested.
Just about the hour for opening you see
agood looking man, with q handsome
brown mousteche, go into the Secre-
tary's room. That is Colonel Miller,
the head of the Loan Division of the
Treasury. His division has charge of
the general bond business of the Treas.
ury, and he opens the bids for sale of
bonds and calls them oil to the Assem-.
bled newspaper and financial party.
When the three O'Clock signal sounds
the door to the SecIetary's room is
thrown open and the eager crowd
rushes In. The newspaper men
range themselves about the Secre-
tary's desk, in position to catch the an
nouncements with promptness and &c.
curecy. Some Of them take seats at
the table near by, but others stand. If
they sit down at table, they can not
hustle for the telegraph office. 60
quickly after the close of the opening.
The Secretary seats himself at his desk
Mr.. Miller sits beside him. Then
the bids are taken up one by one, and
the name of the bidder, his residence,
the amount he offers and the price at
which he offers them are read. They
follow each other in quick succession,
and when at the end the an.
nouncement, "That's all, " comes, there
Is II grand rush for the door. Every.
body is ANXIOUS to get his re-
port of the news first into New
York. The Associated Press,
the United Press, the Press News
Association, the special correspondents,
the representatives of the various
brokers and financial institutions, all
are anxious to be first In with the news
Down the two flights of stone steps
they fly, and through the long hall aud
across the street to the telegraph
Office in drove that reminds you of a
flock of hungry sheep rushing to their
favorite posture. No wonder the
Treasury doorkeeper says; II wonder
what has happened.
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Hon. j. G. Bancroft Davis is one of
the few men In politics, says the New
York Grdphic, who have sense enough
to pick out good thing when they see
II and to quietly secure II. He Is a
right good fellow, as the world of
Washington goes, little inclined to be
thought dignifed In his way, and
as he strobe up and down In the Fifth
Avenue Hotel on Saturday evening
looked little English, you know"
In his general make up. He has been
good deal of an oillceholder during
his sixty years of life, and lie
has always had cosy places, with
plenty of salary attached, and
with not too much public at.
tention attracted TO them. He was Sec
retary of Legation at London back
somewhere in the forties and lion In
English society before the Angloma
MACS Of this country were born. He